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and a beatiful crimson, with fragrant leaves. M. Rus- 

 selliana has red and white flowers ; curious and hand- 

 some. M. punctata has yellow and red flowers ; they 

 grow in any common soil. 



Mathiola, is the generic of the Stock-gilly. None of 

 them will survive severe winters ; yet many of them 

 are indispensable in the Flower-garden. M. simpli- 

 cicdulis, Brompton-stock and its varieties ; with M. inca- 

 na. Queen-stock, and its varieties, require the protec- 

 tion of a good frame in winter, and about the end of 

 this month, or beginning of next, plant them in good 

 light rich soil to flower, which they will do all summer, 

 if attended to with frequent supplies of water. M. an- 

 nua has about sixteen varieties, valuable for flowering 

 the first year from seed, and are all annuals. They 

 ought to be sown on a gentle hot-bed about the first of 

 this month, and carefully pricked out so as they may 

 be ready to transplant about the end of April or the 

 first of May. Plant them in light rich soil, and they 

 will flower profusely through the season ; if it is very 

 dry, they must be watered to keep them growing. The 

 scarlet, white, and purple varieties are the finest; but 

 there are many intermediate sorts all handsome. M. 

 glabra is the Wall-flower leaved stock, and requires the 

 same treatment as the two former. There are about 

 eight varieties of this, all various in colour. In plant- 

 ing any of these into the open ground, choose cloudy 

 weather, except they have been in pots ; in such case, 

 plant at any time in beds, keeping each kind separate. 



(Enothbras. The most of them are indigenous, and 

 in Europe they afford a continual ornament to the 



